The Reluctant Jew

Author : Michael Grossman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467075159
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Jew written by Michael Grossman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if you are agnostic or hard-core atheist there is a dazzling, thought-expanding, bright side to religion you may have overlooked. Living a spiritual life in the tradition of the Jewish faith, does not mean mindless adherence to outdated dogma. Judaism, instead, can be a source of exhilarating wonder, an inspiration to justice, and an impetus to ever increasing knowledge. Nowadays, even many who profess to be the most pious among us realize that when asked, What is God?, they must answer logically, even scientifically, to be persuasive. Theyre aware that any religion, to be convincing, other than to die-hard adherents, can not be at odds with reason and blindly insist only it speaks the truth. The field, therefore, is wide open. Each of us can attempt to journey towards a concept of God that makes sense, celebrates the discoveries of science, and will, hopefully, imbue the traveler with wonderment at the astonishing beauty in the world that too often lays hidden from us. Join Michael Grossman in his journey to the heart of Judaism, which places much more emphasis on "what people do" than on "what they believe," and in the process, an understanding of all the worlds great faiths.

Author : David W. Weiss
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253112781
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Return written by David W. Weiss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." -- Hadassah Magazine "In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey... will reward readers of all faiths." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A powerful and unusually eloquent memoir of a prominent Austrian Holocaust survivor invited back to face... old ghosts and demons.... An intelligent and profound memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews David Weiss is an eminent biomedical scientist, now living in Israel. But in 1938 he was an 11-year-old boy in Austria who dramatically escaped the Nazis with his family. For some 56 years Weiss held a deep and abiding enmity for everything Austrian and German. Reluctant Return is his account of his emotional return to his hometown of Wiener Neustadt, the remarkable Christian group that brought it about, and the visit's surprising echoes and consequences.

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ISBN 13 : 9781941046197
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Jews written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Anctil
Publisher : Canadian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780776627953
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People written by Pierre Anctil and published by Canadian Studies. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how anti-Semitic was Montréal's Le Devoir in the first half of the 20th century? Delve into sixty of the most significant editorials published within this prestigious daily.

Author : Julie Galambush
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062104756
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Parting written by Julie Galambush and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the New Testament’s Forgotten Jewish Origins

Author : Barbara Kessel
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683025
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suddenly Jewish written by Barbara Kessel and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic personal stories of the unexpected discovery of a Jewish heritage.

Author : Herb Sennett
Publisher : Herb Sennett
ISBN 13 : 0997023147
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant General written by Herb Sennett and published by Herb Sennett. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Biblical book of Judges, the story of Deborah and Barak describes amazing courage and fortitude beyond modern comprehension. In this retelling of the old story, Herb Sennett brings to life the people of 1150 B.C. in such a way that their hopes, dreams, struggles, pain, and suffering help us face our own problems. The Jewish people of that day knew little of warfare and tactics; but they were able to defeat the most powerful army of the day, then conquer the most heavily defended city in the region. The story begins with a powerful king and his military commander destroying several villages. The center of the activities is the famous Valley of Jezreel that stretches from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. Here the leader of one of the most powerful armies of the period forces the recent Jewish arrivals to pay exorbitant taxes to his king. What happened after the people decided they had had enough of Jabin’s cruelty is the heart of this engaging story of a people who have spent the last three thousand years struggling daily to survive.

Author : Benjamin Kuras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Golems Go written by Benjamin Kuras and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Rubin
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307493113
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who We Are written by Derek Rubin and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond. E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her readers. Dara Horn, among the youngest of these writers, describes the tendency of Jewish writers to focus on anti-Semitism and advocates a more creative and positive way of telling the Jewish story. Thane Rosenbaum explains that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he was driven to write in an attempt to reimagine the tragic endings in Jewish history. Here are the stories of how these writers became who they are: Saul Bellow on his adolescence in Chicago, Grace Paley on her early love of Romantic poetry, Chaim Potok on being transformed by the work of Evelyn Waugh. Here, too, are Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jong, Jonathon Rosen, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Alan Lelchuk, Rebecca Goldstein, Nessa Rapoport, and many more. Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays — by turns nostalgic, comic, moving, and deeply provocative- constitute an invaluable investigation into the thinking and the work of some of America’s most important writers.

Author : Evgeny Finkel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884926
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Jews written by Evgeny Finkel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violence Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for understanding the survival strategies in which Jews engaged: cooperation and collaboration, coping and compliance, evasion, and resistance. Finkel compares Jews' behavior in three Jewish ghettos—Minsk, Kraków, and Białystok—and shows that Jews' responses to Nazi genocide varied based on their experiences with prewar policies that either promoted or discouraged their integration into non-Jewish society. Finkel demonstrates that while possible survival strategies were the same for everyone, individuals' choices varied across and within communities. In more cohesive and robust Jewish communities, coping—confronting the danger and trying to survive without leaving—was more organized and successful, while collaboration with the Nazis and attempts to escape the ghetto were minimal. In more heterogeneous Jewish communities, collaboration with the Nazis was more pervasive, while coping was disorganized. In localities with a history of peaceful interethnic relations, evasion was more widespread than in places where interethnic relations were hostile. State repression before WWII, to which local communities were subject, determined the viability of anti-Nazi Jewish resistance. Exploring the critical influences shaping the decisions made by Jews in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, Ordinary Jews sheds new light on the dynamics of collective violence and genocide.